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Tristana: Buñuel’s Film and Galdós’ Novel: A Case Study in the Relation Between Literature and Film by Colin Partridge (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995) OK, finally wrapping up Tristana… Colin Partridge has provided a valuable service for anyone interested in an English translation of Galdós’ novel. Tristana is a wonderful book full of […]
Tristana (1970) directed by Luis Buñuel IMDb.com page for the movie Fernando Rey: Don Lope Catherine Deneuve: Tristana Franco Nero: Horacio Lola Gaos: Saturna Jesús Fernández: Saturno Tristana was one of the few movies adapted from a novel that I watched before reading the book. After reading the novel I’m more impressed with what Buñuel […]
Tristana: Buñuel’s Film and Galdós’ Novel: A Case Study in the Relation Between Literature and Film by Colin Partridge (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995) In reading though Colin Partridge’s essay on the novel Tristana I found a quote from Fortunata and Jacinta that I had marked as important when I read it but […]
Tristana: Buñuel’s Film and Galdós’ Novel: A Case Study in the Relation Between Literature and Film by Colin Partridge (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995) In a novel full of ambiguity, Tristana’s lover Horacio is the one certainty. He’s a disappointment. I should expand on that judgment and qualify it where appropriate. Horacio’s early […]
Tristana: Buñuel’s Film and Galdós’ Novel: A Case Study in the Relation Between Literature and Film by Colin Partridge (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995). All quotes are from Partridge’s translation of the text unless otherwise noted. I’m realizing how poorly thought out my approach was on writing about Tristana, but I’m halfway through […]
Tristana: Buñuel’s Film and Galdós’ Novel: A Case Study in the Relation Between Literature and Film by Colin Partridge (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995) I had originally planned to have several posts on the main characters of Tristana and then talk about the opposing viewpoints on the novel but I realized that order […]
Happy new year! I’m looking forward to starting 2013 with yet another wonderful novel by Galdós. Tristana: Buñuel’s Film and Galdós’ Novel: A Case Study in the Relation Between Literature and Film by Colin Partridge (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995) I was able to obtain this book through an interlibrary loan—good copies are […]
Death of an Athlete by Miklós Mészöly Translated by Tim Wilkinson Liverpool: Bluecoat Press, 2012My earlier post on the novel and author, providing a few links available in English on both. Hildie, the companion of recently deceased track star Bálint Őze, is asked by the State Sports Press to record a memoir about his life. […]
I mentioned in an earlier post that I have a list of most of the characters by Bolesław Prus’ The Doll. I enjoyed the novel quite a bit and hope that others will take the plunge on reading it. Toward that end I’m posting my list of character names. As you can see there are […]
Merry Christmas! A bookish Christmas for me, receiving the annotated version of Some Do Not… and No More Parades. The wife, she notices. These are the books staring at me from various places around the house, although I’m sure I’m missing some. I will try to focus on these in the early part of 2013. […]